Hopefully this isn’t some $300+ reel & takes a lot of features from the STX, if so, I might get one. The other brand fanboys are crying “gimmick/overkill” but I bet they’ll be following suit. I honestly don’t think there’s such a thing as too fast for rod worked techniques, so I’m hoping this is gonna be right in my wheelhouse & Abu doesn’t screw the pooch on braking or something else that would kill it for me.

That’s some BLAZING speed! I’d say that it will have limits to very specific uses, such as bottom dwelling soft plastic rigs, jigs, etc… HOWEVER, if it has enough power to winch fish out of thick cover or enough power to fight the fish…I can see it as a good thing. If it’s fast just for the sake of being fast…then they will have missed the mark.

I’m more of a Quantum user, but do own & use other brands as well.

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The Revo stuff is awesome and all, but not a true Abu in my book. They’re non-proprietary designed reels based on some common architecture or another that exists out there in the free market. I’ve got BPS stuff based on the same platform. They are light-years ahead of the last true Abu reel, the EON, but lost the magic IMHO (and problems) of the EON.

Why the heck not jam some super fast restive into the Revo? What more can you do with that architecture at this point? More power to them.